The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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... character . We have been induced to enter thus circumstantially into the foregoing detail of facts relating to the Lives of the Poets , compiled by Messrs . Cibber and Shiels , from a sincere regard to that sacred principle of truth ...
... character . We have been induced to enter thus circumstantially into the foregoing detail of facts relating to the Lives of the Poets , compiled by Messrs . Cibber and Shiels , from a sincere regard to that sacred principle of truth ...
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... BLAKEWAY . The Monthly Review has improved since the above character was given of it : the Critical has been discontinued many years . - E » . work which was not written by Addison ; for there 26 [ 1776 . THE LIFE OF.
... BLAKEWAY . The Monthly Review has improved since the above character was given of it : the Critical has been discontinued many years . - E » . work which was not written by Addison ; for there 26 [ 1776 . THE LIFE OF.
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... characters so very differents . " JOHN- SON . Garrick , sir , was not in earnest in what he said ; for , to be sure , his peculiar excellence is his variety : and , perhaps , there is not any one character which has not been as well ...
... characters so very differents . " JOHN- SON . Garrick , sir , was not in earnest in what he said ; for , to be sure , his peculiar excellence is his variety : and , perhaps , there is not any one character which has not been as well ...
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... character , " On the con- trary , " said he , " you may observe there is always something which she prefers to truth . " " Fielding's Amelia was the most pleasing heroine of all the ro- mances , " he said ; " but that vile broken nose ...
... character , " On the con- trary , " said he , " you may observe there is always something which she prefers to truth . " " Fielding's Amelia was the most pleasing heroine of all the ro- mances , " he said ; " but that vile broken nose ...
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... characters . " He told us that " Addison wrote Budgell's papers in the Spectator , at least mended them so much , that he made them almost his own ; and that Draper , Tonson's partner , assured Mrs. Johnson , that the much - admired ...
... characters . " He told us that " Addison wrote Budgell's papers in the Spectator , at least mended them so much , that he made them almost his own ; and that Draper , Tonson's partner , assured Mrs. Johnson , that the much - admired ...
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